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J. C. (John Cuthbert) Long

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MOTOR CAMPING CHAPTER I OVER THE HORIZON LINE

MOTOR CAMPING CHAPTER I OVER THE HORIZON LINE

With provisions costing no more than at home, with moderate investment for camping equipment which will last for several years, the family can get a vacation in the open, can see other parts of the country, can get an appreciation of the national life which could hardly be realized in any other way. To the boy living in Connecticut, Georgia can become an actual reality rather than an inch or two of space on the map. The eastern family which has a full summer vacation can readily visit California

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How One Family Saved Money by Motor Touring

How One Family Saved Money by Motor Touring

An Iowa farmer with a small car of popular make started out with his wife and three children to see [ 7 ] the Colorado mountains. He expected to take a trip of about seven hundred miles out and back. Before they were home again they had covered a distance of more than seventeen hundred miles. By the way, fully fifty per cent of all motor campers are farmers. This farmer tells us that from start to finish of their motor camping vacation, they did not sleep in a bed, eat off a table, or sit on a c

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How a Farmer Did It

How a Farmer Did It

Now for some details of a motor camping tour taken by a Boston woman and her friends. This trip involved much more elaborate preparation and considerable more expense than the case just given, but nevertheless was much more economical than a similar tour by rail and hotels. This Bostonian after minimizing baggage as much as she thought possible took along the following items: one light-weight cloth-tailored suit, half a dozen tailored shirt-waists, one foulard gown to wear of an evening should o

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A Boston Woman

A Boston Woman

Two New York couples forming a one-car touring party went motor camping through the Hudson River country. Their outfit was somewhat elaborate, and for the ladies consisted of toilet articles, underwear, flannel underskirts, linen shirt-waists [ 10 ] without collars, gray flannel shirt-waists, sweaters, high water-proof shoes with heavy soles, woolen kimonos, sun bonnets, motoring bonnets, heavy raincoats, khaki skirts, flannel night-dresses, stockings (including extra pairs of heavier weight), a

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Two New York Couples

Two New York Couples

The cooking experience of this party was also successful. They mixed dough and put it in a greased cake tin. After raking away the coals they put the tin in the hole where the fire had been. The other cake tin was then placed on top, and the ashes and coals were heaped on over it. In fifteen minutes the hot bread was cooked to a turn. Potatoes in soaked newspapers were put under the ashes and came out in about half an hour cooked to perfection. Thus these New Yorkers went motor camping for two w

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Four Ohioans Travel at $1.00 per Day Each

Four Ohioans Travel at $1.00 per Day Each

Week-end Wild Men—Numerous Camping Sites Near the Large Cities—Camp Sites Near New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles—The State Forester—Clothing—Bed—Bedding—Expense—Food—Fire and Fuel—Tools—Tents—Hammocks—Medical Kit—Children—Church. Probably every dweller in civilization, whether of Main Street, Zenith City, or the metropolis, dreams of breaking loose some time and getting back to “fundamentals.” He wants to get off somewhere at the e

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For New Yorkers

For New Yorkers

Every large city in this country has remote spots within easy motoring distance where the week-end camper may be as far away from the crowd as desired. The Bostonian will find camping accommodations at Wellesley, or he can purchase a permanent site for his exclusive use not many miles from the city. The State Highway Department is planning a number of camp sites along Massachusetts roads. [ 18 ]...

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For Bostonians

For Bostonians

The resident of Philadelphia can cross the Delaware and find solace in the woods of South Jersey. The “Penn State Forest” of the South New Jersey group is five miles east of Chatsworth on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, and consists of 2,700 acres of pine and cedar forest in one of the wildest sections of that state. In his own state the Philadelphian will find not far away the ranges of the Blue Ridge Mountains running northward toward the Pocono and the Delaware Water Gap, and even these l

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For Philadelphians

For Philadelphians

Not far from Cleveland is the camping-ground of Marblehead, located on a peninsula combining the [ 19 ] advantages of water and woodland. There is also another wooded camp site near by at Amherst, Ohio....

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Near Cleveland

Near Cleveland

There are thousands of square miles of woodland available at moderate prices on the east coast of Michigan, but the motoring Detroiter who does not own his own shack in the woods can find accommodations in the many beautiful State Parks, those near by being Island Lake and Cedar Hill....

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Near Detroit

Near Detroit

The Buckeye who abides in Cincinnati may find week-end camping sites among the hills of southern Ohio or across the river in the State Parks of Kentucky....

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Near Cincinnati

Near Cincinnati

The dweller in Chicago who desires to go forth in his car for a week-end camping trip has a wide variety of choice as to location. He may find camp sites of natural wildness within the park system of his own city, especially along the Desplaines Valley. He may travel north into the woods of Wisconsin as far as the Cushing State Park, near Waukesha, or to the south he may reach the Indiana Turkey Run State Park, near Marshall, Parke County, of that state. This last park, almost due south of Chica

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For the Chicagoans

For the Chicagoans

As one works farther west, the possibilities for a quick journey into the wilderness become increasingly easy. The Rocky Mountain National Park is within ready motoring distance from Denver. California abounds in free playgrounds. There is the Los Angeles National Forest near Los Angeles, the Santa Barbara National Forest a little farther north, and about seventy-five miles above San Francisco begin the Trinity National Forests. In the beginning of his experience the week-end camper would do wel

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Abundant Camps in West

Abundant Camps in West

In addition to their desire to help, the State Foresters realize that besides its health values this camping movement is likely to have a profound effect on our national economic policy. We have been exhausting our timber supply. Every one knows about it, every one believes that forestry is a good thing, but it has been a political issue of such minor interest as to command little attention. As the average man develops the camping habit, comes to know the Forest Reserves, forestry will become a

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Keeping Expenses Low

Keeping Expenses Low

When it comes to the matter of food, it is difficult to lay down rules, as there is such a difference in [ 24 ] the matter of taste and appetite. One man will get along finely with some hard-tack or stale bread to which he adds some canned beef and cheese. He will also take along some seasonable fruit. Mainly for the sake of something hot he will take along some ground coffee and a tin pail in which to cook it over an open fire or on a Boy Scouts’ theroz stove. With several loaves of bread, two

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The Diet

The Diet

It is a convenience to have some sort of a regular camp stove of the folding variety that will take wood fuel. An open fire may be made with very little fuel, and is most camplike. In some places an open fire is forbidden, and if permission to camp has to be secured from a private owner of a site favorable action is much more likely if it is stated that there will be no open camp fire. In rainy weather, too, the camp fire is likely to be a problem. If it is intended to depend on the open fire ei

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The Stove

The Stove

We have been all along considering this question of week-end motor camping from the masculine angle. This is not necessarily the only way to consider it. In many cases the motor campers are a man and wife, or even a family including one or more children. Of course, when a woman is along a little more preparation must be made; more clothing and equipment, more complete and systematic provision in the matter of food and cooking arrangements; more comfortable sleeping arrangements also should be ar

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Family Camping

Family Camping

The tents may be erected by stretching ropes from the top of the car to near-by trees. Care should be taken to have the tent pins driven deep and to attach the canvas close to the ground. If possible, the site chosen should allow of drainage away from the tent in case of rain, and should be, so far as [ 27 ] circumstances will permit, on gravelly or porous soil. In any event it is desirable to dig a shallow trench about the tent to drain away the water that will run down the tent in case of heav

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Selecting the Site

Selecting the Site

A raincoat with blanket spread over it will form a convenient mattress. Some campers, and the weight of tradition, recommend cedar boughs for a bed, but the art of arranging and sleeping on them has to be acquired. The only kind of boughs or browse that can be comfortably used as the basis for a bed must be fine in quality, otherwise the corners of the boughs will find the bones of the sleeper with infernal ingenuity and make his rest very unsatisfying. Some campers prefer to sleep in hammocks.

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Making a Suitable Bed

Making a Suitable Bed

A medical kit should always be carried. This should include a Red Cross first-aid outfit. In the absence of a physician it is well to have on hand cascara or castor oil, sun cholera tablets in case of diarrhœa which often develops from change of drinking water, Epsom salts to be taken to clear out ptomaine poisoning, and mustard for external application in case of cold. Iodex should be included to be used in the event of sprains. Mention has already been made of the inclusion of children on week

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The Medical Kit

The Medical Kit

The last commandment of the Scout Law runs in part, “A Scout is faithful in his religious duties.” Now, the week-end camper need not neglect his religious duties, for in the East and South, as also in the Middle States, the week-ender is not likely to camp in a place so remote as to be more than a fifteen-minute, or thereabouts, motor ride from a church of some denomination where he will be likely to get as much good as he will be able to assimilate. If he is particular as to his brand of religi

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Church

Church

Number of Fords, Mobility of Fords, How to Camp with Them—The Foldaway Bed—The McMillan Bed—The Carefree Folding Outfit—A.B.C. Bed for Fords Only—Universal Car Bed. About half the passenger motor cars in this country are of the variety known as Ford. Hence we may assume that a large proportion of the readers of this book will want to know what can be done with a Ford in connection with motor camping. The little Ford can go most anywhere, but one reason for this is its rather diminutive size. The

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Different Colors for Different Goods

Different Colors for Different Goods

Whatever is to be carried outside the car must, of course, be wrapped up in flexible oilcloth or [ 33 ] other waterproof material, as the rain is very successful in driving in through an ordinary box or suit case with results disastrous to the contents. No matter what car the motor camper may use there are at least four things for him to consider. Perhaps most essential to determine in advance is where and how he will sleep. Food, clothing, and car he need not bother so much about. He has his ca

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Need for Waterproof Protection

Need for Waterproof Protection

One of these devices is the “Foldaway Bed,” for the sedan. The Foldaway rolls into a bundle 4½ inches by 4 feet, weighs only 14 pounds, and takes up less space than a golf bag. It is made of tough oak and double strength canvas and will support two 250-pound people. The Foldaway has a clever stringer suspension. The rear seat cushion is pushed up to the front of the car, the seat beside the driver is removed by pulling two cotter pins, and the back seat sets low on top of the driver’s seat with

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Sedan Bed

Sedan Bed

Another bed for the Ford, for the touring car, is the McMillan Auto Bed. This may be bought for ten dollars or less for the Ford size. The McMillan Auto Bed is based on the idea that you should use what you have rather than load yourself and the car with a lot of things you haven’t and [ 35 ] don’t need. With the McMillan Auto Bed the cushions you sit on during the day are the cushions you sleep on at night. With this difference: Between your body and the cushions is a roll of smooth heavy canva

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Touring Car Bed

Touring Car Bed

For the roadster and coupé there comes what is called the “Carefree Folding Outfit for Touring, Camping, Dining, Sleeping.” This is an attachment weighing 160 pounds which is easily attached to the rear of a roadster or coupé in half an hour by fastening four bolts. This outfit gives the camper a comfortable elevated bed, a storm-tight shelter, a folding dining table, handy while preparing meals and during meals, a writing or work table between meals, plenty of room for suit cases and camp equip

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Roadster and Coupé Beds

Roadster and Coupé Beds

Standing the Test of an 8,000 Mile Trip—Good Water Supply Everywhere—Army Cots and Canvas the Basis of Outfit—Complete Directions—Mosquito Netting Sides Permit Adequate Ventilation. One of the most interesting experiences in motor camping of which we have known is that of Mr. Frederick W. Huntington of Brooklyn, N. Y. His trip is of particular significance, not primarily in being adventurous, but because it illustrates what any one can accomplish through ingenuity at very moderate expense. Mr. a

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Two Army Cots the Basis

Two Army Cots the Basis

The next feature is the canvas trough which supplies a floor on which one stands while getting into bed or dressing. This protects the feet from the ground, and keeps insects from coming up from the ground. To prepare for this trough, attach five tapes or strips of canvas about nine inches in length in a row at even intervals along the cloth of each cot about nine inches from the inner edge. Then take a piece of tent canvas fifty-eight inches wide by six feet six inches long. Along the outer edg

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The Improvised Floor

The Improvised Floor

The framework of the tent is built up from the cots. To construct this, first bore four three-eighths-inch holes, one at each of the outside ends of the [ 41 ] crosspieces of the cots. Then screw in four screw-eyes near those holes through which the brass rods are inserted (Fig. 3). Next take two strips of hardwood eighteen inches in length, using about three-quarter-inch stuff; also two more similar strips three feet nine inches in length. Bevel the ends of these pieces of wood so that when joi

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Framework for the Tent

Framework for the Tent

From the holes in the two corner joints of this arrangement picture wire is stretched to the screw-eyes at the inner ends of the crosspieces and secured by snap-buckles (Fig. 8, left). At each end of the tent a flat piece of brass, two and a half inches long and three-quarter inches wide is the means employed for the guy ropes and ridge wire. There are three holes in the brass piece, one for the guy rope, the center one for the center post in the tent’s framework, and the third for the ridge wir

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Dimensions of the Tent

Dimensions of the Tent

The inner side flaps are similar to the outer, except that a stretch of sixteen inches of mosquito netting is inserted running from end to end of the tent wall (Fig. 11). Top fits end of pole 10 again. The bottom strip of the inner side-flaps referred to in the above paragraph is of sufficient length so that six inches of it can be turned in to lie along the outer side of the cot. The weight of mattress, blankets or whatever is used to sleep on will keep this turned-in flap from coming out. Alon

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Mosquito Netting Side Curtains

Mosquito Netting Side Curtains

The only feature that remains to be considered is the ends of the tent. These ends, illustrated in the upper part of Figure 12, are thirty-six inches wide at the base, fifty inches high at the inner edge, twenty inches high at the outer edge, and forty-five inches along the shoulder. These dimensions permit an outside overhang of four inches at the bottom. [ 44 ] An eight-inch inside flap is sewed on four inches from the bottom, and is turned under the mattress, or sleeping bag, when the tent is

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Tent Ends

Tent Ends

Tent pattern of home-made camping outfit. Note in the upper part of Fig. 10 the little tab sewed on at the tent corner, holding the ring to which the side guy ropes are secured. Another feature is the mosquito netting inside flaps which permit free circulation of air. Fig. 11 is a strip of canvas along the ridge which, with pins or clips, serves as a hanger for clothes. [ 45 ] The feature of the compartment described above is that the two compartments are horizontal, the lower being covered by t

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Motor Bungalows

Motor Bungalows

The matter of trailers is one of considerable dispute. Some tell of seeing abandoned trailers left broken down along the roadside. Others declare that they never knew motor camping comfort until they came to use a trailer. Undoubtedly a trailer reduces the speed somewhat. However, the pull of [ 49 ] a good trailer only amounts to about twenty-five pounds, and so will not interfere with reasonable speed. On the main highways with wide roadways and easy grades a trailer will be a great convenience

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Opinions Differ on Trailers

Opinions Differ on Trailers

Among trailers there is the Motorbungalow which comes in two forms. There is the Motorbungalow, Junior. This is a real folding house, with kitchenette, wardrobe space, screened windows, comfortable [ 50 ] beds, large enough when erected to afford two bedrooms or dining-room in inclement weather. The Motorbungalow, Junior, is light and compact. It will follow an automobile almost anywhere, carrying all spare equipment. The erecting of the Motorbungalow, Junior, is very simple for the walls and ro

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Motorbungalow, Junior

Motorbungalow, Junior

Another trailer but somewhat simpler than that just described is the “Auto-Kamp” Trailer. The Auto-Kamp can be set up in a few minutes and provides a tent 7 by 12 feet upon a frame that extends out from the trailer when it is opened up. There are two windows with storm-proof covers opened or closed from the inside. The beds simply fold over on strong hinges, tent frame sets up in sockets, bed legs are fitted with adjustable ends to take care of uneven ground so that beds will be level. The beds

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Auto-Kamp Trailer

Auto-Kamp Trailer

Still another notable trailer, which is known as the “Chenango Camp Trailer,” provides outdoor comfort with privacy. This is listed at $375.00. In a very short time this trailer can be converted into a 10 by 14 foot bungalow with two comfortable bedrooms, a kitchen equipped with a two-burner vapor stove and oven, encased in a fireproof metallic cabinet with ventilator, refrigerator of fifty pounds ice capacity, kitchen cabinet capable of carrying a week’s provisions for a party of four, four lar

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Chenango Camp Trailer

Chenango Camp Trailer

Many persons, however, do not find it feasible or desirable to have either a convertible body or to own a land yacht for motor touring. Others do not care to sleep in the car body, but prefer rather to pitch a tent either in connection with the car, alongside, or near by. Such will require something in the way of tenting equipment. In many aspects a tent entirely separate from the car has its advantages. The car is then simply parked near by and is available for side trips, journeys to market, n

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Tent Equipment

Tent Equipment

Of tents attached to the car there are those that do not touch the ground and others that have a ground attachment. Still others are entirely separate from the car and form independent units. Some tents use poles and others are supported entirely by ropes. Where tent poles are used they are as a rule in sections for convenience in packing....

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Tents Attached to the Car

Tents Attached to the Car

Of sleeping tents that are attached to the roof of the car and extend from its side without reaching the ground, save by the guy ropes and the supporting frame, the Auto Bed Camp is a good example. These tents come in units for two people, and are sufficiently rugged to accommodate two large adults. The supporting frame is so constructed as to increase the tension of the bed canvas in proportion to the weight superimposed, thus preventing any sagging of the bed. The bed is protected on all sides

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Auto Bed Camp

Auto Bed Camp

There are many styles of tents that attach to the car, some of them extremely ingenious in construction. Many of these tents use no poles, but are supported by ropes that fasten to the top of the car. Some of these tents are very simple and are little more than canopies, while others are quite elaborate with sod cloths for the floor, side walls, flies, and folding cots. An inexpensive tent thus attaching to the side of the car by ropes that go over the top, a tent having walls but using no poles

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Tents Attaching to Car

Tents Attaching to Car

It may be remarked in passing that in pricing tents on specifications supplied by the manufacturers [ 56 ] it will be well to keep in mind this information. The United States Government Standard yard of duck is 29 by 36 inches. A piece of canvas this size that weighs eight ounces is the “U . S. Standard” eight-ounce duck. If it weighs ten ounces it is U. S. Standard ten-ounce duck. Many manufacturers, jobbers and dealers use 36 by 36 inches as their standard yard. On this basis six-ounce “U. S.

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How to Judge Weight of Canvas

How to Judge Weight of Canvas

In small, inexpensive tents that stand apart from the car, tents without floors, a quite satisfactory article is the Scout Featherweight Shelter Tent. The “Scout Featherweight” has a door at each end, and each door is equipped with an overlapping lapel and double row of tie strings. Draw the lapels together, tie them securely and the whole world is shut out completely. Two folding poles, six stakes and a pack-bag are supplied with each tent. It’s no trick at all for a man or a boy to put the ten

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Scout Featherweight Tent

Scout Featherweight Tent

A more elaborate type of tent, but still one comparatively inexpensive in cost, is called “The Overland Trail Camp.” The occupants are completely shut in. This tent also has a bed for two people raised fifteen inches from the floor. The ground space covered is 8 feet 6 inches by 5 feet. The peak in front is 6 feet, and the back wall 30 inches. The space in front of the bed is 5 feet by 2 feet 6 inches. [ 58 ] There are three pockets on the side wall, with a netting door sewed to the front wall.

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Overland Trail Camp Tent

Overland Trail Camp Tent

One of the most recent tent outfits upon the market is a tourist tent called the Khaki Watershed. This is priced at $22.50. As the name would suggest, it is designed to afford full protection from rain and moisture and to be mildew-proof. Rolled up with its jointed poles and packed in its waterproof bag its weight is only eighteen pounds. This tent supplies sufficient space for three cots and can be erected either separately or attached to the car. When erected separately the front flap may be u

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Khaki Watershed Tourist Tent

Khaki Watershed Tourist Tent

One of these larger tents that illustrate the more elaborate provision that is made for the motor camper who desires this sort of thing is called the Tentobed which may be set up without any external support. A light collapsible frame made from cold drawn steel when erected supports the canvas. A tent which folds up 4 feet long and 8½ inches in diameter and weighing only sixty-nine pounds has a dressing or extra room alongside full length of bed, 6 feet 4 inches long and 4 feet wide, and may be

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An Elaborate Tent

An Elaborate Tent

A type of the old-fashioned ordinary tent with which we are all familiar is called the Cabco Wall Tent. These tents come in five sizes, ranging from 5 by 7 feet and 5½ feet high to 12 by 14 feet and 8 feet in height. The side walls are 3 feet, save in the largest size, where they are 3½ feet. These tents come with fly and jointed ridge-poles, as also jointed uprights. Sod cloths are likewise provided. The largest size weighs close to a hundred pounds and will cost in the neighborhood of fifty do

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Standard Wall Tent

Standard Wall Tent

Closely related to tents as part of the equipment of the motor camper is that of beds and bedding. Of course, if resourceful and of economic trend the motor camper may equip himself fairly from his home supplies. With car cushions and suit cases he may arrange the foundation for a bed in his car upon which he will spread blankets and comfortables or such other bedding as he may find room for in his car. But many will prefer the purchased rather than the home-made article in the way of beds and b

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Beds and Bedding

Beds and Bedding

There are a number of combination bed, tent and carrying case outfits, some of them very cleverly designed and exceedingly complete, yet compact. One of these which comes in several sizes is a combination for use with any auto. It is equipped with clamps for instantly attaching to the running board. There are no holes to drill. The bed has sagless, non-stretchable springs which enable a heavy person [ 62 ] and a light person to lie comfortably without rolling together. The tent of waterproof, mi

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Combination Outfits

Combination Outfits

Of beds that may be used inside the car there are many. One of these, called the “Utility,” is designed to serve many purposes, as it may be used in any wall tent, auto tent, sleeping porch, cabin, inside most touring cars, and as a spare bed in the home. The legs are adjustable for use inside touring cars, to pass over the seat backs. No ropes or fastenings are necessary. The bed is self-supporting, and the legs rest upon the seat standards after the cushions are removed. The frame is all steel

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Inside Car Beds

Inside Car Beds

Then we have beds which are somewhat similar to hammocks suspended from end to end of the car. One of these hammock beds is called the “Tour-bed” and rolls into a bundle four feet four inches long and only four inches in diameter with a weight of twelve pounds. The bed is really an apron of heavy duck stretching from the back of the car to the front, over the wheel. It is said to be strong enough to carry two people weighing together over five hundred pounds. The Tour-bed is anchored to the axle

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Hammock-Type Beds

Hammock-Type Beds

There are also several kinds of auto-beds made that will fit any car and which make use of the [ 64 ] cushions of the car over which the auto-bed, made of heavy canvas, is stretched. The canvas is fastened to the four corners of the car, and upon the canvas the autoist lays down as many blankets as he can spare to put under him. Such a bed can be adjusted in a few minutes and to most people is quite satisfactory....

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Beds Using Cushions of the Car

Beds Using Cushions of the Car

When we take up the question of food preparation and the cooking utensils required we have a great variety of appliances and a wide range of preference. Some will manage without any cooking utensils and will get along with an open fire on the ground. Naturally in such a case the motor camper is liable to have more or less difficulty with his fire in rainy weather. But notwithstanding the inconvenience due to inclement weather there are some hardy and resourceful souls that, like the wild Indians

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Cooking Apparatus

Cooking Apparatus

The average motor camper, however, will find it much more convenient to provide himself with some sort of equipment for cooking or at least heating part of his food and drink. If nothing more, he will carry with him solidified alcohol in some form [ 65 ] or other. Those little kits for the use of alcohol in cubes or simply in a can do not give out a great deal of heat and are not good for much except for making tea, coffee or cocoa, or for heating up canned goods, such as beans. Yet they are con

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Solidified Alcohol a Convenient Heat

Solidified Alcohol a Convenient Heat

About the simplest and least expensive of these is the “Rush Stove.” It is simply a rectangular box-like affair that folds up flat. It will burn any kind of solid fuel, but works best with wood. It costs about five dollars, and can be set up in ten seconds. This stove weighs but seven pounds and folds into a package only one and a half inches thick. It may be packed under the seat of an auto or strapped on the back of a motorcycle. Nevertheless, this stove is thoroughly substantial, is made of 2

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Simple Stoves

Simple Stoves

Oil stoves are pretty effective, but they are usually not collapsible, accordingly bulky, and likewise are hard to keep clean, particularly such types of them as use wicks. The best are those kinds that operate under air pressure, like plumber’s torches, and without a wick. These high-pressure wickless stoves are very efficient. One, called the “Juwell,” will raise two pints of cold water—sixty degrees—to boiling in three or four minutes at the outside. This stove is claimed to be faultless in o

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Oil Stoves

Oil Stoves

There are many kinds of gasoline stoves, but there is some danger attached to their use, as this fluid leaks out very readily and is, as all know, very volatile and inflammable. Of course, the great advantage lies in the fact that it is a material that the motorist is sure to have at hand, and a gasoline stove when working right certainly does the work in short order. One of the best gasoline stoves is the Colorado Sure Meal Camp Stove. It burns with such a hot flame that the stove can be opened

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Gasoline Stoves

Gasoline Stoves

In addition to stoves, campers use various wire broilers that are supported by legs and that stand on the ground. These cost very little and are a convenience where open fires are used. Similar to the broilers but more substantial are various kinds of camp grids which can be stood over the coals and on which pots, pans and kettles may be placed for cooking purposes. [ 69 ]...

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Broilers

Broilers

As to other cooking utensils, aside from stoves or other appliances to be used in connection with cooking fires, the camper has the same wide choice that he has elsewhere. He may have everything going or almost nothing. He may use a skillet for both his coffee and his frying, making the coffee first, and keeping it hot in his pail while he fries his bacon. Then, with tin cup, plate, knife, fork and spoon he may make out to his satisfaction. Another motor camper, however, will be satisfied with n

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Cooking Utensils

Cooking Utensils

As for tools, the motor camper will include the usual number of spare parts and repair and adjustment implements for his car. If his trip is to be at all extensive, or even more than for the week-end, he should not fail to include such items as a good towing line and other equipment to extricate himself if need be from mud holes and other difficulties. [ 71 ] In addition the motor camper should have along with him at least a camp ax, a shovel, and a hunting knife. A standard camp ax, “Quarter Ax

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Essential Tools

Essential Tools

The car will have its own lights and perhaps a spotlight that within some range will be adjustable. Also the motor camper may be provided with insulated wire, lamp sockets and lamps with which to light his tent and the vicinity of his car. But in addition it will be convenient for him to have a lantern or two. If he lives in the country he may already be provided with lanterns that he may take along. Otherwise he will have use for one of the many camp lanterns that are on the market at small cos

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Necessary Lights

Necessary Lights

In the so-called “Egyptian Sanitary Self-cooling Water Bag” water is kept cool by the principle of refrigeration by evaporation. A small amount of water exuded by the bag evaporates slowly and keeps the contents cool. Colder water can be obtained by exposing the bag to the air on all sides, as when hung up. Waterproof folding basins come in weight of seven ounces to fold in one-half inch thickness. One such basin costing sixty-five cents is made of brown waterproof duck; capacity, 1 gallon; diam

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Water Bags

Water Bags

An excellent thing to take along for safety’s sake as a protection from contaminated water is the Army Filter Pump known the world over. This weighs three pounds and has a capacity of a quart a minute. [ 73 ] The filter consists of a brass case nickel plated, containing and protecting a cylinder made of infusorial earth. This must be put in water and, by a pump attached at the side, water is forced through the filtering cylinder out through a goose neck tube at the top. The filtering cylinder sh

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Filters

Filters

Everywhere, save in the eastern states and unpopulated parts of the west, the motor camper will find municipal camp sites in nearly all the towns and cities or in their close vicinity. These for the most part are supplied with public water of good quality. In most of them the motorist will also find electricity for light, and in many places gas for cooking. In others he will find fireplaces and fuel for his use. If the motor camper plans to use these public facilities, so numerously supplied, he

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Water Supply Generally Available

Water Supply Generally Available

There is a camping outfit for motor campers that differs from all others in being a substantial canvas bungalow which is set up by itself like a house. It affords larger quarters than any trailer, but packs up so compactly and is so light that it may be carried [ 74 ] upon the running board. This is the Rietschel Camping Outfit. The structure can be erected in a few minutes and stands on its own feet like a house. The cost is listed at $98.50 and the weight is only 150 pounds. It has one full-si

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A Canvas Bungalow Carried on Running Board

A Canvas Bungalow Carried on Running Board

Nothing has been said hitherto on the matter of refrigeration. Where the motor camper wishes to take fresh milk, or meat, or such articles as butter or berries, along with him it will be essential to have some means of keeping these in good condition, and about the only thing that will meet such a situation is some kind of a refrigerator. Some motor campers take along one of the small nursery ice-boxes that most people have who possess babies. These little ice-boxes will not hold much, but where

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Refrigeration

Refrigeration

One motor camper had an ingenious arrangement for keeping the baby’s milk cool. He made two wooden boxes, one six by six inches in size, and the other six inches by nine in size. They were both eight inches deep. These were inside measurements. The lids had an extra block of the same thickness as the box (13 by 16 inches) which fitted down inside the box. These boxes were provided with a galvanized-iron lining seven inches deep and fitting snugly inside the boxes. He would ice the boxes to pre-c

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A Home-made Ice Box

A Home-made Ice Box

It should hardly be necessary to remind the motor tourist that such adages as “Safety First,” “It’s Better To Be Safe Than Sorry,” and a “Stitch in [ 77 ] Time …” supply a wise basis of conduct for the motor tourist. We sometimes hear a tourist boasting the speed at which he “hits it up,” “giving the other fellow the dust,” etc.; or telling how he made his forty per right along, and with a trailer, too. All such talk is supremely silly. Watching for crossings, breaks in the road, and other wise

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Cautionary Suggestions

Cautionary Suggestions

Always stop for street cars or omnibuses, unloading or loading. In most cities this is required by local ordinances, and in some states the traffic laws impose the same requirement. Motorists should spread the gospel of good roads to all men, and great will be their reward in tire-saving. Women drivers of vehicles should be given special consideration, and, some say, watching. A small amount of shellac will stop small leaks in radiators. Any kind of grease (butter, lard, etc.) is good to soften

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Securing Permission

Securing Permission

The wayside spring is by no means a safe source of water supply, as it often receives drainage from barnyards or from fields upon which manure has been spread. The same may be said of the small streams which abound in some sections of the country. The larger streams also are open to the suspicion of impurity. What then is the camper to do in case he wishes to camp elsewhere than in a public motor camping park? There is only one safe thing to do when you must use water that has not been tested an

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Boil the Water

Boil the Water

If the desire is to camp elsewhere than in a municipal motor camping park certain conditions must be considered in making the selection of a camp site. Considering that the motor camper will tent and have a regular camp fire, wood and water are prime essentials. Seek high, well-drained land. Avoid stony or rocky ground or shallow soil. Do not camp in a pine or hemlock grove, at least in summer, as fire is liable to creep and spread in the fallen pine needles and hemlock leaves. If possible camp

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Where to Camp

Where to Camp

[ 85 ] In disposing of refuse , dig a good-sized hole into which it may be thrown. Before leaving fill up the hole completely with earth. Meanwhile, each time refuse is thrown into this hole, throw upon it several shovelfuls of earth so as to prevent flies, insects, and odors from developing. Never cast refuse into ponds, lakes or streams. It is unsightly and dangerous to health. Clean up at once after each meal. If you have no hot water scrub your plates and kitchen utensils in a brook or lake,

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Disposing of Refuse

Disposing of Refuse

In the vast national forests of this country “Camping is free,” to quote from one of the bulletins of the U. S. Forest Service, “and generally requires no permit. You may choose your own camp ground and help yourself to dead wood.… You may fish or you may hunt with gun or camera. On most of the forests there are no restrictions other than those imposed by the game laws of the states in which the forests are situated. You can find out what these are from forest officers or state game wardens.” (I

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Permission to Camp in Forests

Permission to Camp in Forests

“9. No tents (except those under rule 8) or wooden [ 88 ] structures shall be erected or maintained in the Forest Preserve, except under written permission from the Conservation Commission (located at Albany, N. Y.). Tar paper shall not be used, except for roofs of open camps erected under permit. The structures for which permits may be granted are as follows. Those erected under (a), (b) or (c) become the property of the state. “(a) Open camps for use of travelers, not to be occupied by the sam

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Winter Camping

Winter Camping

While most of the summer campers may not admit that they are inconvenienced in any way by mosquitoes, bugs or insects of any sort, those who contemplate camping in the fall are quick to agree that one advantage of this sport in cooler weather will be the absence of many such pests. They advise, however, that motorists should take along with their tents a few extra blankets as a protection against the nippings of Jack Frost. In the winter time motor camping is mostly confined to the crowd of moto

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Preparing the Ground

Preparing the Ground

Usually there will be no difficulty in kindling the fire unless the weather be wet. In this latter event, particularly in a rainstorm, it may be very difficult to start a fire in the open. If the camper has brought along some short pieces of dry wood which he can whittle into coarse shavings, or if he has along a store of dry pieces of birch bark, he may shelter the spot where he means to start a fire under the skirt of his raincoat, get together a few of the driest pieces of wood that he has, a

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Kindling Fire in Wet Weather

Kindling Fire in Wet Weather

The wise motor camper will keep his matches in waterproof boxes, and will also use wax matches, [ 103 ] or at least those whose stems have been well paraffined. In the absence of matches a cigar lighter can be used to start a fire. A somewhat more difficult method of kindling a fire is to use a steel and flint lighting set. Still more difficult to accomplish is to start a fire the way the Boy Scouts do with two pieces of wood. To do this successfully it will be necessary to get one of those fire

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How to Summon the Flames

How to Summon the Flames

There are two ways of cooking over an open fire. The pot may be slung over the fire from a hook on a pole, or the pan may be set over the fire, resting upon a support underneath. In the latter way the fire may be confined between two green logs and the pan placed across the logs close to the fire. Or a folding wire broiler may be set across over the [ 104 ] fire and the stew pan, camp kettle, or coffee-pot put on the broiler....

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Cooking Over an Open Fire

Cooking Over an Open Fire

The beginner usually makes too big a fire. A very small fire, carefully fed as required, will cook better than a large fire which is apt to make a lot of smoke and blacken and burn everything put over it....

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A Small Fire Adequate

A Small Fire Adequate

The ingenious and resourceful motor camper can cook a great variety of very appetizing food with almost no utensils to help him, using simply an open camp fire. Any one who has been a boy in the country knows how to roast potatoes in hot ashes. If not careful the potatoes will be burned, but probably not so badly as to entirely spoil them for food. But a burnt potato will not taste bad by a camp fire. Why, after the camper has been out for a week he will almost be able to eat, like, and digest g

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A Simple Outdoor Meal

A Simple Outdoor Meal

Speaking of desserts, here is one that is both palatable and corrective. The last word refers to the need of the camper for food that will be slightly laxative to counteract the effects of the concentrated foods that he is likely to use. Take dried apples, apricots, peaches and prunes—all in a dried condition—soak in water overnight. Mix all together, adding water and sugar. Stew slowly for twenty minutes and you will have a tutti-frutti stew that will give a dessert which the camper will eat wi

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A Delightful Dessert

A Delightful Dessert

The most common way of cooking over a camp fire is to cut two forked stakes or small posts and drive them into the ground far enough away from the fire so as to be in no danger of burning. The crotch of each fork is open to the fire, and in this crotch, which should stand a couple of feet up from the ground, a pole an inch or so through is laid. Over this pole above the fire is placed an iron hook, or a couple of hooks, with which the camper has provided himself at a hardware store before starti

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Cooking Over the Fire

Cooking Over the Fire

Returning to the subject of food for the camper, it will be agreed that the menu is largely a matter of personal taste. But there are certain items which are included in every outfit and which are regarded by all as necessities, no matter how widely personal tastes may differ with regard to other supplies. No one can imagine a camp without coffee, and the smell [ 108 ] of boiling coffee is as much a part of the camp atmosphere as the rustle of the leaves among the trees. A popular custom in the

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Essential Food Supplies

Essential Food Supplies

The reason why as a rule a man will make a better camp cook than a woman is because he has [ 110 ] had no experience as a cook in the use of modern conveniences. The woman who cooks splendidly in the home, with gas range and electric cooking utensils always at hand, is likely to be lost when out camping in the woods she tries to prepare breakfast with the limited equipment of a camp cooking kit, or a camp fireplace. She is still more in the wilderness as an efficient worker if she has nothing mo

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Man a Better Camp Cook Than Woman

Man a Better Camp Cook Than Woman

Three or four cobblestones, bricks or even tin cans will do for a fireplace. If no stones, bricks or even cans are at hand, dig a small hole in the ground. All that is necessary is to find something that will support a skillet or frying pan in a steady and even position. A small fire directly under the skillet will work wonders. There is not much heat, but what there is goes right to the spot where it is needed to do the work. The camper soon learns how to make this small fire, feed it bit by bi

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A Typical Process of Getting a Meal

A Typical Process of Getting a Meal

Some wise motor campers sally forth with hampers stuffed with fruit, sandwiches, grape juice, loganberry juice, lemons, sugar, dates, raisins, nuts, olives, powdered cereal coffee, malted milk, evaporated milk, and salt. A small oil stove and some “canned heat” are included. Fresh eggs, cottage cheese, and vegetables that do not require cooking, like lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes and also fruit, can, as a rule, be bought at farmhouses along the way. Bread may be bought as needed. Whole

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A Balanced Diet

A Balanced Diet

Camping ground in Grand Canyon National Park Such a meal consisting of one or two eggs or cottage cheese, a few nuts, whole wheat bread, olives, lettuce, radishes, tomatoes, apples, pears or peaches, with some dates or raisins, will supply the body’s needs and have as sustaining qualities as meats and rich desserts. A menu of this description will supply in abundance the iron and lime and other mineral salts, as also the life-promoting vitamines. It will in addition give natural encouragement to

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Camp Cooking

Camp Cooking

Corn Meal Mush may be made by pouring slowly into a quart of boiling water to which has been added a half teaspoonful of salt, one cupful of corn meal, stirring constantly. If you wish to avoid its being lumpy, better feed in the corn meal through your fingers, so as to scatter it as it reaches the water. Fish is best broiled. Rub fat on the grid to prevent sticking. If the fish is large remove head and entrails, split down the back and lay on the broiler with slices of bacon or pork placed acro

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Organize the Work

Organize the Work

It is well while moving to cast about for a suitable camping site by mid-afternoon. If the intention is to make use of a public motor park, and the first one found does not seem altogether desirable in point of being roomy, shaded, or in the provisions made for the comfort and convenience of campers, drive on to another and keep on until the best camp site available is found. This advice applies all the more to the camper who intends to camp by himself on private property and who will have to ar

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Choosing the Camp Site

Choosing the Camp Site

In selecting a camp site, other than in a camping park provided with water, as these mostly are, the question of a water supply for drinking purposes is exceedingly important. As mentioned elsewhere, the wells of the countryside and the wayside springs are more or less open to suspicion. So, too, are the brooks, as they may receive drainage from farmhouses near their course or from barnyards. If the camp is near a swamp, the water there may be dark, but that is no sign of especial impurity as th

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Water Supply

Water Supply

There are many forms of recreation that the motor camper may enjoy, particularly when camping away from the crowd. A basket ball may well form part of the camping equipment. It will not be hard to find two trees sixty feet apart. If baskets have been carried along with the ball, they may be attached to these trees at the regulation height of ten feet, with wire nails which will not injure the trees, and a lot of fun may be had from the games played on the hazards of an uneven court in the woods.

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Games

Games

Another thing that the motor camper should not forget is provision for emergencies. He should know how to render first aid in case of injury, how to resuscitate those who have been drowning, how to treat various forms of common poisoning with a knowledge of the antidotes for these poisons. This subject cannot be gone into fully in this book. There are books entirely devoted to the promotion of safety and assistance to the injured when the emergency arises. As for drowning, many people who have b

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First Aid

First Aid

6. Do not cease your efforts as soon as your patient begins to breathe. Continue until the breathing is quite regular. Then when the patient is able to sit up, stimulants, such as aromatic spirits of ammonia, may be given in spoonful doses. The stimulant should be given in water. After this the [ 130 ] wet clothing should be removed and the patient put to bed. If the patient is not revived at the end of an hour do not give up. Keep him warm and continue. Many persons have been resuscitated after

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Poison Antidotes

Poison Antidotes

Where poisonous mushrooms have been eaten, as is sometimes done by children, or where there is ptomaine poisoning from bad food, the use of emetics is not advised, although their use can do little harm, and sometimes the poison may not have yet passed beyond the reach of such a remedy. As a rule, however, the symptoms of these vegetable poisons, as they usually are, will not appear in acute form until the poisoning agent has passed into the lower digestive tract. Then about the only thing to do

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The Medicine Chest

The Medicine Chest

There are a number of little things in connection with the arrangement of the camp and its tent which are not likely to occur to the inexperienced camper which nevertheless are quite important when it comes to his comfort. One of these little things is the exact location of the tent and its position. If there is any option in the matter it will be well to have the tent face a little south of east. This brings sunshine into the tent’s entrance the first thing in the morning at a time when it is m

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Location of the Tent

Location of the Tent

If the camper is careful to keep the inside of his tent dry he will not mind a day or two of wet weather. The tent if not of waterproofed material should be protected by a fly to make sure of keeping it dry. Still the ordinary tent of duck without [ 137 ] any fly can be kept dry if the occupant is careful not to allow anything to touch the inside surface of the tent, and thus start a drip. It is a good plan to raise the sides or walls of a tent during the heat of the day so as to thoroughly dry

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Keeping the Tent Dry

Keeping the Tent Dry

It may be asked, what about taking exercise while motor camping? In these days most every one has his “Daily Dozen,” or two dozen flexes or genuflexes, that he takes in order to keep fit. Now, should these be kept up when in camp? Really, each one will have to settle this for himself according to his bent. Most campers will have considerable exercise in keeping the car fit, and that exercise will go a long way at the same time in the direction of keeping the car owner fit. Even if the car is in

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Exercises

Exercises

Many campers are inclined to neglect the care of their cars, as is very evident by the unkempt and [ 139 ] dusty appearance that so many of them present. They are likely, too, to be equally careless and disorderly in securely adjusting the tent and in keeping everything in the way of tools in an appointed place so as to be always findable, until after waking in the night a time or two in a wind and rain storm to find the sleeping tent ballooning because of a loosened stake, and then being carrie

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Care of the Car

Care of the Car

(See also Chapters IV , V , VI ) Importance of Comfortable Sleeping Arrangements—Methods of Sleeping in the Car—Sleeping on the Ground—Beds of Boughs or Browse—Autumn Leaves—Folding Cots—Air Beds—Sleeping Bags—Combination Bags and Beds—Home-made Mattresses—Sleeping in Hammocks—Night-caps—The Touring and Sleeping Outfit of a Tourist Veteran of Ten Years’ Experience—Driving Out the Sleep Disturbers, Flies and Mosquitoes. As Sancho Panza remarked, “Blessed be the man who first invented sleep.” Cert

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In the Car

In the Car

Good bedding, beds, and proper shelter are very important both for comfort and health. Blankets or sleeping bags are essential, and the blankets should be of pure wool. Some blanket safety pins should be included in the equipment for the night. In cold weather sleeping bags are a decided advantage over blankets. A comforter, especially one filled with wool, is warm and provides a satisfying protection against the chill of a cold night. Such a comfortable may be bought at a reasonable price in al

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Woolen Blankets Needed

Woolen Blankets Needed

Where the camper prefers to do his sleeping in a tent, he has the choice of the tent floor for a bed, a bed made for the occasion by laying blankets over [ 144 ] straw, leaves, cedar boughs, hemlock fans, or other browse, or, finally, a camp cot. If the ground is dry with a gravel or sandy foundation a sleeper can be quite comfortable lying on a canvas spread directly on the ground itself. This is true particularly during July and August in those regions where the nights are warm. The writer has

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In the Tent

In the Tent

There are any number of varieties of folding cots for those campers who prefer to sleep in that way. Many of these are quite inexpensive and fold up very compactly. There is a “Gold Medal Cot,” listed at $4.50, which folds into a package 4 inches by 5 inches by 3 feet 2 inches long and weighs 17 pounds. This cot is made of the highest grade olive duck and will support a weight of over 1,000 pounds. What is called “The Improved Yankee Cot” is another strong, convenient and comfortable camp cot. I

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Folding Cots

Folding Cots

There will be no need of bed or cot where the camper prefers a sleeping bag. This may be laid down on the tent floor, or even placed out in the open. There are sleeping bags which are designed to be used in the open and which supply their own protection of the head from the inclemencies of the [ 146 ] weather. When the weather is fair many prefer sleeping with no covering below the stars. The “Kenwood Sleeping Bag and Tent in One” has 4½, 5½ or 6½-pound inner bags of soft, warm, new wool. For ve

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Sleeping Bags

Sleeping Bags

Another combination camp and bed is the “Airtube Camp Mattress.” This is a mattress with a shelter tent attached. It is impervious to moisture, and the camper can sleep on the wet ground. The mattress is formed of 3½-inch Rubber Pneumatic Tubes, incased in separate cells, in a light, serviceable cover. It is easily filled by lung power, and requires only about fifteen pounds air pressure. It conforms to the body and to uneven ground. The tent is made of army khaki cloth and completely covers and

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Camp Mattresses

Camp Mattresses

The insulating properties of the air make an air mattress warmer than a cot, but in cold weather the air mattress is cold, unless reënforced with plenty of blankets on its surface. In cold weather there are many advantages in sleeping in the car. If it gets cold the engine can be run a while to warm things up a little. In addition to those car-body beds previously described there are several others on the market which are excellent for the purpose. Any one with tools and a little ingenuity can r

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Hammocks

Hammocks

An auto camper who has been at the camping game for the past ten years, who has kept at week-end camping right along and who has crossed the continent a couple of times, camping along the route, has out of his long experience reached this as his standard outfit. He takes an “Auto bed” with a 7 by 7-foot tent; a six-pound cotton pad or mattress for the bed; a two-burner gasoline camp stove; one heavy double blanket; one wool-filled quilt; a blanket roll; two eight-quart milk cans for water; and a

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Making His Own Coffee-pot

Making His Own Coffee-pot

Now you are ready to proceed. First fill your container with water. Next heat six stones about the size of a hen’s egg in the camp-fire until they are red-hot. Quartz stones are the best. You will be likely to find some in the bed of any near-by stream, or in any gravel formation. Slip these hot stones into the water carefully, one at a time, and at the [ 160 ] end of your wooden pot. Six of these stones will bring to a boil a quart of water in less than five minutes. Of course, in winter with w

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Boiling Water in Wood

Boiling Water in Wood

However, we have been supposing that this pioneer camper proposes to live off the country, and that he has taken no supplies with him, unless it [ 161 ] be his coffee, tea, and tobacco. In such a case he will have to find wild food. This is more easily done than might be thought. For example, in almost every section you will not have to travel far without finding the common cat-tail reeds. You will find them along the coastal shores. They are almost sure to be growing in the swampy spots found i

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Cat-tail Roots Are Good to Eat

Cat-tail Roots Are Good to Eat

There are other roots, too, besides the cat-tails. Alongside most streams, ponds, or swamps the arrow-leaf, blue-flowered water lily will be found growing. This grows in shallow water, and the roots, or rather tubers, lie practically on the surface of the bottom of the water, and are very easily dislodged. Being lighter than water, too, they will float up to the surface when torn loose. These tubers reach about the size of black walnuts, and may be cooked as the cat-tail roots and with equal sat

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The Blue Flower Water Lily Is Tasty

The Blue Flower Water Lily Is Tasty

In many localities east of the Rocky Mountains, and particularly in the Northwest after September, what is called wild rice will be found growing in shallow lakes or ponds. This is not the white rice of commerce, but its little stick-like seeds are far more nutritious, and more tasteful also, than tame rice. Two young fellows in a canoe or sharpie, one to row, while the other with a stick knocks off the rice into the boat by striking the heads, can gather a bushel of the grain into the bottom of

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Wild Rice Is Palatable

Wild Rice Is Palatable

We are aware that in many sections of our country the fish are few and the game equally scarce. Yet there is nearly always some kinds of fish that may be found and taken lawfully, as also some kinds of game. Then, too, there are some kinds of toothsome fish and game that the hunter or fisherman is not likely to consider. In the game line take the humble musquash. This is the only wild animal that is holding its own against man, and is actually increasing in numbers in the settled sections of thi

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Muskrats Are Plentiful

Muskrats Are Plentiful

The resourceful and observant wild motor camper will discover many sources of food in addition to those already alluded to. In many parts of the country he will find the tall stalks of the Jerusalem artichoke (really a variety of sunflower), also known as the Indian potato. The potato-like tubers of this plant were eaten by the Indians who cultivated the Jerusalem artichoke for these tubers. They are good boiled, and even raw they taste much better than raw Irish potato. This plant has a yellow

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Jerusalem Artichoke a Food

Jerusalem Artichoke a Food

Still another source of food for the wild motor camper are the nuts. These, of course, are not available until fall. The most easily obtainable nuts, if we may call them nuts, are the different varieties of acorns. Some of them are quite astringent, but acorns from the white oak are least so, and even those most astringent may be dried over the fire, pounded up, placed in a cheese-cloth bag, and leached by pouring water through the mass until it runs clear without any yellowish tinge. Boil what

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Acorns Can Be Made Edible

Acorns Can Be Made Edible

Other varieties of mushrooms had best be viewed with suspicion, unless you are expert at distinguishing them. Never eat mushrooms with white or yellow gills growing out of a bulb or cup—they are deadly. [ 168 ]...

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Beware of Certain Mushrooms

Beware of Certain Mushrooms

The Motor Camper’s Continental Range—The Consequent Need of Provision for All Touring Emergencies—The Great Continental Highways—East and West, Bankhead, Dixie, George Washington, Lincoln, Old Trails, National Parks, Pikes Peak, Ocean to Ocean, Old Spanish, Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt International, Park to Park, Yellowstone—North and South, Atlantic, Dixie, Jackson, King, Jefferson, Lee, Meridian, Mississippi Valley, Pacific, Pershing, Puget Sound to Gulf—Also Many Others of Less Importance L

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The Main East and West Highways

The Main East and West Highways

National Old Trails Road , New York to Los Angeles, 3,281 miles, passing through Philadelphia, Hagerstown, Wheeling, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Pasadena. Colors: Red, white and blue bands. National Parks Highway , from Chicago to Wenatchee National Park, 2,436 miles, passing through Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Fargo, [ 172 ] Bismark, Dickinson, Billings, Butte, Missoula, Kalispell, Spokane. Colors: Red and white bands. Pikes Pe

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North and South Highways

North and South Highways

Jefferson Highway , Winnipeg, Canada, to New Orleans, 2,277 miles, via Minneapolis, St. Paul, Des Moines, Kansas City, Joplin, Muskogee, Denison, Shreveport, Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Colors: Blue, white and blue band with letters J. H. combined on the white. Lee Highway , Washington, D. C., to New Orleans, 1,155 miles, via Staunton, Roanoke, Bristol, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Meridian to New Orleans. Colors: Blue letters “Lee” on diagonal white band with blue and red background. [ 1

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Branches of Main Highways

Branches of Main Highways

Other important trails for the motor tourist which are now available are: The Black and Yellow Trail (black and yellow bands), Chicago to the Yellowstone National Park, 1,610 miles. The Black Diamond Trail (black diamond on white band), from Springfield, Ill., to Nashville, Tenn. The Black Hawk Trail (black head on white band), from Dixon, Ill., to Beloit, Wis., 60 miles. The Black-Hills-Denver-Diamond Highway , from Denver, Colo., to Deadwood, S. Dak., 460 miles. The Blue Grass Trail (white, bl

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Other Important Trails

Other Important Trails

The Blue Trail (marked with blue bands), from Glacier Park Station, Mont., to Banff, Canada, 327 miles. Boone Way , from Lexington, N. C., to Louisville, Ky. Buffalo Trail , from Great Falls to Billings, Mont., 253 miles. California-Banff Bee Line Highway , from Los Angeles, Cal., to Banff, Canada, via Spokane, Wash. Cannon Ball Trail (black ball on white band), from Chicago, Ill., to Hannibal, Mo., 341 miles. Caterpillar Trail (green name on orange band), from Peoria to Pontiac, Ill., 60 miles.

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Great Variety of Camping Sites

Great Variety of Camping Sites

There are one hundred and seventy-one separate National Forest tracts, and these one hundred and seventy-one forests are found in twenty-nine states and territories. The territories are Alaska and Porto Rico. The administrative arrangement of these tracts is by districts, of which there are eight. The First District contains twenty-six forests situated in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota and Washington. In the Second District there are twenty-seven forests located in Colorado, Minnesota, Nebraska, S

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The Forests

The Forests

National Parks. In addition to and distinct from the National Forests there are a list of notable National Parks, some of them, as, for example, the Yellowstone, of vast extent. These parks for the most part ask motor visitors to register. Campers are required to register. The registration of cars for the season of 1922 reached a total of 198,515 cars and 695,614 motorists. This number has since had a considerable increase. The figures just given are those reported by the Director of the Nationa

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The National Parks

The National Parks

One thing for the motor tourist to ascertain when planning to visit one of the National Parks is the dates at which the parks open. All the National Parks are open during the summer months of July and August. The usual dates of opening and closing as officially announced are as follows: Crater Lake Park, July 1 to Sept. 30; General Grant Park, May 24 to October 10; Glacier Park, June 15 to September 15; Lassen Park, June 1 to September 15; Mesa Verde Park, May 1 to November 1; Mount Rainier Park

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Opening Dates of Parks

Opening Dates of Parks

We come now to The State Parks and Forests . Most of the states own more or less extensive areas of land, much of which is in forest. Most states, too, have a forestry department. Where states have state-owned land there is usually no objection to campers using it temporarily. In many states, however, and particularly where provision has been made for the accommodation of campers, a permit is required which may be obtained from the local official of the Forestry Department. There is usually no c

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State Parks and Forests

State Parks and Forests

Illinois has a few State Parks under the supervision of the Department of Public Works and Buildings. These parks are mostly of a commemorative character and offer little in the way of accommodations for the motor camper. The largest of these parks is Starved Rock Park, on the Illinois River, with an extent of approximately nine hundred acres. This park has much scenic beauty and is equipped throughout with artesian water, electric light and a sewerage system. Indiana is interested in motor camp

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Boise’s Attractive Park

Boise’s Attractive Park

The Salt Lake City camping park is another example of a most attractive camp site. The camp comprises eight acres and will accommodate 400 cars. It is equipped with water, sewers, arc lights, a wash rack for cars, free firewood and a commissary building at which tourists’ larders may be replenished. Signs posted on the fence invite the tourists [ 196 ] to stop and rest as guests of Salt Lake City. Hundreds of tall shade trees help to make the place an ideal camping ground. Practically every comm

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A Model Site in Salt Lake City

A Model Site in Salt Lake City

But take a single park in a city along the Lincoln Highway, the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and one can get a little idea of the vast multitude taking to the open road at the height of the camping season. A visitor to this camp ground of forty acres on the edge of a little lake near this city on July 28, 1921, at the peak of travel for the season made a careful census of the cars in the park on that day and found a total of 763 cars and 2,540 people from thirty-two states. In addition to the peop

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Denver’s Remarkable Overland Park

Denver’s Remarkable Overland Park

These camps just described are but typical of a multitude of other camping parks, many of which are quite as attractive as those mentioned. Most municipalities court the motor camper, and when the contrary is the case it is felt as a fault. One chamber of commerce secretary in an Indiana town writes, “We have no motor camp site. We are made up of a bunch of retired farmers, the most unprogressive lot of folks on earth.” The secretary of a Pennsylvania municipal commercial club gives the informat

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Standardized Camping Parks

Standardized Camping Parks

There is coming to be a new development in connection with motor touring which is designed to meet the requirements of those who desire a little more luxury than can be had in ordinary camping, but who do not care for either the formality or the expense involved in putting up at the average first-class hotel. To meet the demands of this class what are called Motor Inns are springing up in hundreds of localities, some of them being operated on the chain principle, thus securing uniformity of oper

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Motor Inns

Motor Inns

The State of Alabama has a Department of Conservation, but no Forestry Department, and can supply no information as to possible camping sites on state-owned lands. The Moulton National Forest is situated in the State of Alabama, and the local forester would doubtless welcome motor campers. [ 206 ]...

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ALABAMA

ALABAMA

It is hardly necessary to mention that the Grand Canyon National Park is situated in Arizona, and that campers will find facilities by applying to the Superintendent. Arizona has ten of the National Forests within its borders, and as several of the transcontinental highways pass through the state those that are approached or penetrated by these highways offer camping sites. The Kaibab National Forest, bordering [ 207 ] the Grand Canyon, is one of the most accessible. The National Forests in Ariz

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ARIZONA

ARIZONA

[ 208 ] While there seems to be no system of State Forests in Arkansas and camp sites therein for the motor camper, Arkansas abounds in beauty spots, in mineral springs, and mountains where the camper is welcomed and where he may camp delightfully. Campers find attractive camping sites which may be freely used at such places as the city of Little Rock, Eureka Springs, Mena, Mt. Magazine, Mt. Nebo, Sulphur Springs, Mammoth Springs, Hardy Spring River, and Lake Chicot. The Hot Springs National Par

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ARKANSAS

ARKANSAS

[ 215 ] California is the land of National Parks and Forests. Within the state boundaries there are three of the great National Parks, viz.: Yosemite National Park, General Grant National Park and Sequoia National Park. In these parks the U. S. Government has arranged facilities for motorists to camp, either using their own equipment or renting tents and utensils after arriving in the parks. Of the 171 National Forests no less than twenty are found either wholly or in part within the State of Ca

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CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA

California is the land of National Parks and Forests. Within the state boundaries there are three of the great National Parks, viz.: Yosemite National Park, General Grant National Park and Sequoia National Park. In these parks the U. S. Government has arranged facilities for motorists to camp, either using their own equipment or renting tents and utensils after arriving in the parks. Of the 171 National Forests no less than twenty are found either wholly or in part within the State of California

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COLORADO

COLORADO

Colorado possesses two of the National Parks, the Mesa Verde Park and the Rocky Mountain Park. During the season of 1921 the Rocky Mountain Park was visited, according to the report of the Forest Service, by 120,388 people who came in 30,264 cars. A majority of these were auto campers. There are now seventeen National Forests in Colorado, with acreages as indicated, viz.: Arapahoe (634,903), Battlement (651,227), Cochetopa (905,723), Colorado (847,328), Durango (614,129), Gunnison (908,055), Hay

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FLORIDA

FLORIDA

Georgia contains two of the National Forests which are gradually being improved by the Forest Service, and where fast as roads are constructed motor campers will have access through them and will find the Foresters glad to aid them in locating camping sites. The two Georgia National Forests are the Cherokee Forest and the Nantahala Forest. Motor tourists may obtain detailed information regarding these forests by addressing the Department at Washington, D. C....

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GEORGIA

GEORGIA

A portion of one of the National Parks lies in Idaho, the Yellowstone, and nineteen of the National Forests, namely: Boise (1,058,941), Cache (492,668), Caribou (681,540), Challis (1,259,237), Clearwater (785,103), Cœur d’Alene (662,611), Idaho (1,193,439), Kaniksu (198,757), Lemhi (1,095,924), Minidoka (509,536), Nezperce (1,624,582), Fayette (831,926), Pend Oreille (676,014), St. Joe (493,925), Salmon (1,621,707), Sawtooth (1,203,387), Selway (1,693,711), Targhee (977,847), Weiser (562,609). T

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ILLINOIS

ILLINOIS

[ 232 ] Indiana has none of the National Parks or Forests, but the state itself maintains four State Parks and a State Forest. In all of these, provision is made for motor campers to which all tourists are welcome. These parks and the forest are not extensive in area, but are well worth a visit by the tourist. The State Parks are: Turkey Run State Park (470), McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park (350), Clifty Falls State Park (400), and Vinegar Mills State Park (100). Figures indicate acreage. Th

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INDIANA

INDIANA

[ 236 ] The following is a list of the State Parks of Iowa, with their location and acreage. Each of these parks is in charge of a custodian, and there are camping opportunities in them. Backbone Park, Delaware County, on Maquoketa River, twelve miles northwest of Manchester, 1,279 acres. Oakland Mills, Henry County, four miles west of Mt. Pleasant, 110 acres. Morehead Caves, Jackson County, eight miles northwest of Maquoketa, 10 acres. Lacey-Keosauqua Park, Van Buren County, near Keosauqua, 1,2

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IOWA

IOWA

The following is a list of the State Parks of Iowa, with their location and acreage. Each of these parks is in charge of a custodian, and there are camping opportunities in them. Backbone Park, Delaware County, on Maquoketa River, twelve miles northwest of Manchester, 1,279 acres. Oakland Mills, Henry County, four miles west of Mt. Pleasant, 110 acres. Morehead Caves, Jackson County, eight miles northwest of Maquoketa, 10 acres. Lacey-Keosauqua Park, Van Buren County, near Keosauqua, 1,222.1 acr

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LOUISIANA

LOUISIANA

Lafayette National Park, situated on Mount Desert Island, two miles from Bar Harbor, offers the motor tourist a number of splendid camp sites. The only State Park in Maine is the Katahdin Park Game Preserve, in which motor tourists are free to camp subject to the regulations of the game wardens....

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MAINE

MAINE

The State Forests of Maryland offer a list of first-class camping sites for motorists which are free to any who apply for them. Permits are required, but no fee is charged. These camp sites are listed below. [ 243 ] Patapsco Reserve.—This is adjacent to the City of Baltimore. Maryland here owns 916 acres, chiefly wooded land, with the addition of over 1,000 acres which are open to the public, with full park privileges in return for the protection which the Board gives to its respective owners in

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MARYLAND

MARYLAND

The fifteen Massachusetts State Forests, aggregating 50,000 acres, are mostly off the main highways and almost inaccessible to motorists. However, three of the State Forests are on main highways, the Mohawk Trail Forest, the Erving Forest, and the Otter River Forest. In these more accessible forests the Department of Conservation is planning to establish camp sites as fast as the Legislature provides funds. The five State Parks, Mt. Wachusett (1,200 acres), Mt. Greylock (8,000 acres), Mt. Sugarl

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MASSACHUSETTS

MASSACHUSETTS

Michigan has a list of twenty-three State Parks, in each of which provision is made for the comfort of motor campers. The Conservation Department opens Michigan’s State Parks to all, whether residents or non-residents of the State. Campers are permitted to fish in adjacent waters in accordance with the law, and to make use of any of the conveniences, such as outdoor fireplaces, tables, benches and pavilions, when not in use by other visitors. Non-residents may secure fishing licenses from care-t

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MICHIGAN

MICHIGAN

Tourists are permitted to camp for less than one [ 248 ] week without a permit, but for a longer period a permit must be secured from the custodian of each park. Automobiles may be parked in spaces provided in each site. The public bath houses are for the use of visitors as well as the rowboats which may be rented in those parks having boating facilities. Cadillac State Park, William W. Mitchell State Park, Cadillac. Cedar Hill State Park, Lenawee County, near Clinton. Cheboygan State Park (form

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MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA

Mississippi has a great deal of land that belongs to the state, but it has not been designated as “State Forests” and no provision seems to have been made thus far for camping sites....

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MISSOURI

MISSOURI

The National Forests of Montana are exceptionally attractive to auto campers. During the summer months there is usually little rain. The weather is cool, especially at night, but it is seldom necessary to provide more than a light tent and sufficient blankets for warmth. Many of the tourists passing through this country use folding cots or air mattresses, but many simply spread their blankets on a piece of canvas placed next to the ground. Owners of Ford cars commonly have the back of the front

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MONTANA

MONTANA

A part of the Yellowstone National Park is in Montana, as also the whole of the Glacier National Park. There are eighteen of the National Forests in this state; the list which follows also shows the acreage. They are: Absaroka (842,467), Beartooth (662,537), Beaverhead (1,337,223), Bitterroot (1,047,012), Blackfeet (865,077), Cabinet (830,676), Custer (428,922), Deerlodge (833,178), Flathead (1,802,905), Gallatin (564,855), Helena (687,983), Jefferson (1,039,766), Kootenai (1,336,061), Lewis and

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NEBRASKA

NEBRASKA

Nevada has a sparse population, and in consequence road construction is correspondingly limited. The state is best reached by the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway, along which are found Elko, Winnemucca, Lovelock, and Reno. Nine of the National Forests are included wholly or in part within the State of Nevada. These National Forests, with their areas in acres, follow: Dixie (282,543), Eldorado (400), Humboldt (1,301,073), Inyo (72,817), Mono (464,315), Nevada [ 265 ] (1,250,929), Tahoe (14,853)

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NEVADA

NEVADA

New Hampshire includes a part of the White Mountain National Forest. This National Forest was not acquired by the Government until 1918, and in consequence the Forestry Department has not done much yet in the way of road construction. The portion of the White Mountain Forest included within the boundaries of New Hampshire has an area of 241,878 acres. Through this forest there are a number of good roads which run to the numerous summer resorts of this region and along which there are many natura

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NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW HAMPSHIRE

New Jersey has a number of State Forests that are open to motor campers without charge on application to the local Forester. They are: The Stokes State Forest, near Branchville, 7,200 acres on Kittatinny Mountain. The Lebanon State Forest, 5,000 acres of pine, oak and cedar along the Buddtown Road from Ong’s Hat, six miles southeast of Pemberton. The Penn State Forest, 2,700 acres of pine and cedar forest, between the Papoose and Breeches Branch Forks of Wading River—five miles southeast of Chat

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NEW JERSEY

NEW JERSEY

The Forest Rangers in charge of these forests [ 267 ] may be reached by addressing Branchville, Pemberton, and New Gretna, N. J. There are now six National Forests in New Mexico comprising an area of approximately nine and one-half million acres. The Forest Service is rapidly improving transportation and communication facilities in the New Mexico Forests. Under the new law about half a million dollars was spent on National Forest Roads in New Mexico during 1922. [ 268 ] Persons who desire to cam

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NEW MEXICO

NEW MEXICO

The New York State Conservation has laid out a number of marked routes in the State Forests, and along these has established a series of equipped camp sites. [ 270 ] Route 1.—One fireplace between Warrensburg and Chestertown about three miles north of Warrensburg. Route 1.—Two fireplaces between Aiden Lair and Newcomb, at Boreas Bridge, about one and a half miles north of Aiden Lair. Route 1.—Two fireplaces at south end of bridge over Fish Creek Pond, about three and one-half miles north of Wawb

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NEW YORK

NEW YORK

Route 1.—One fireplace between Warrensburg and Chestertown about three miles north of Warrensburg. Route 1.—Two fireplaces between Aiden Lair and Newcomb, at Boreas Bridge, about one and a half miles north of Aiden Lair. Route 1.—Two fireplaces at south end of bridge over Fish Creek Pond, about three and one-half miles north of Wawbeek Turn. Route 1.—One open camp and three fireplaces one-eighth mile west of north end of bridge over Fish Creek Pond. Route 1.—Two fireplaces near Follensby Clear P

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NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA

The Sullys Hill National Park is located in North Dakota and is reached from the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway from Devils Lake, only a few miles distant. [ 278 ]...

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OHIO

OHIO

The only National Forest in Oklahoma is the Wichita, 61,480 acres. The supervisor of this forest may be reached in Cache, and will give all information possible regarding roads and camp sites in the Wichita Forest. [ 281 ]...

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OKLAHOMA

OKLAHOMA

The National Forests of Oregon number sixteen and form for motor tourists one of the great attractions of the state. These are the (1) Cascade National Forest (1,016,290 acres). Motor tourists will find at Salt Creek Hot Springs camping facilities. (2) Crater National Forest (798,588 acres). There are convenient camping places along the motor road through this forest along the Rogue River, at Natural Bridge, Union Creek, Silver Camp and [ 283 ] Whiskey Creek. Dead Indian Soda Springs in this reg

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OREGON

OREGON

(5) Malheur National Forest (1,057,682 acres). The Metolius River, which may be reached by excellent automobile roads, has a number of public camping grounds along its course. Camping places are also found along the entire length of Murderers Creek, which is accessible during the summer through Bear Valley. (6) Minam National Forest (430,694 acres). Balm Creek Reservoir in this forest offers motor tourists good camping facilities. (7) The Ochoco National Forest (716,604 acres). A new road throug

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PENNSYLVANIA

PENNSYLVANIA

The Metropolitan Park Commission of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations has set apart certain open spaces for public recreation and enjoyment. One of these, the Lincoln Woods Reservation (458 acres), is one of the best natural parks in New England and consists of rocky woodland, streams, hills and valleys, open meadows and lakes. Shelters and fireplaces have been located in several sections of the reservation and campers must use the latter if a fire is needed. Permits for the [

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RHODE ISLAND

RHODE ISLAND

Thirteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-one acres of the Savannah National Forest are located in South Carolina, and motorists will doubtless find many attractive camp sites within its borders. The supervisor of this forest (also called the Nantahala) may be addressed for information at Franklin, N. C....

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SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH CAROLINA

South Dakota maintains in the Custer State Park one of the most picturesque recreation grounds in the country. It comprises 61,440 acres in the Black Hills section of the state, 30,000 acres of which are designated by the National Government as a game preserve. Among other interesting game there is a herd of seventy-five buffalo. A wonderful system of highways is being constructed which will open up this park to motor tourists. The Wind Cave National Park is accessible to motor tourists and is b

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SOUTH DAKOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA

Among the lands acquired by the Government in 1918 were tracts in the State of Tennessee which have been formed into the Cherokee National Forest (83,875 acres) and the Unaka National Forest (11,854 acres). Information as to camping sites and roads leading thereto may be had by writing the supervisors of these forests, for the former at Athens, Ga., and for the latter at Johnson City, Tenn. [ 292 ]...

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TEXAS

TEXAS

Zion National Park, in Southwestern Utah, is visited by thousands of motor campers each summer, and has many attractive camp sites. Utah is rich in National Forests, having no less than twelve, some of which are accessible to motor tourists and offer desirable camps. These National Forests, with their areas expressed in acres, are: Ashley (973,871), Cache (264,194), Dixie (432,784), Fillmore (699,579), Fishlake (656,740), La Sal (519,384), Manti (789,957), Minidoka (72,123), Powell (689,927), Se

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UTAH

UTAH

There are also many places along the main highways where individuals have posted notices inviting tourists to camp there. The State Forests are mentioned in another chapter, but they are somewhat inaccessible, and provisions for motor campers as yet are meager....

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VERMONT

VERMONT

The Natural Bridge (71,710 acres) and the Shenandoah (44,920 acres) National Forests are in Virginia and have many beautiful and interesting spots to offer to the motor camper. Specific information [ 298 ] may be received as to camping sites by addressing the supervisor of the former at Buena Vista, Va., and of the latter at Harrisonburg, Va....

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VIRGINIA

VIRGINIA

Camp sites prepared by the State Forestry Department are generally upon lands leased by the Department, such lands being situated upon public highways and usually adjoining running streams of pure water, fireplaces and free wood being provided. There are twenty-one of these sites, mostly in counties in the western portion of the state. There are sixteen State Parks, upon some of which camping sites have been established and others will be provided. At present ten camp sites have been opened to t

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WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON

The following is a list of the sites under lease by the Forestry Department: Part of Lot 2, Section 32, Township 37 North Range 1 West (San Juan County). Part of S.W. quarter of S.E. quarter of Section 32, Township 16 North Range 2 West, 20.49 acres (Thurston County). Four acres in S.E. corner of S.W. quarter of Section 32, Township 37 North Range 4 East (Whatcom County). North 3 acres in Lot 5, Block 1, Silver Lake in Township 28 North Range 5 East on the Pacific Highway in Snohomish County. On

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WISCONSIN

WISCONSIN

Brule Park (4,321 acres), Douglas County. Cushing Memorial Park. Small. Nelson Dewey Park (1,651 acres) is located in Grant County in the angle formed by the confluence of the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, and includes the bluffs of both rivers. Devils Lake Park (1,400 acres). Sauk County, near the city of Baraboo. Interstate Park (730 acres), including the Dells of the St. Croix River. Pattison State Park (660 acres). A natural camping ground, including Manitou Falls—highest in the state. D

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WYOMING

WYOMING

Caribou National Forest (6,547). Supervisor at Montpelier, Idaho. Hayden National Forest (322,175). Supervisor at Encampment, Wyo. Medicine Bow National Forest (469,786). Supervisor at Laramie, Wyo. Shoshone National Forest (1,576,043). Supervisor at Cody, Wyo. Targhee National Forest (335,471). Supervisor at St. Anthony, Idaho. Teton National Forest (1,922,947). Supervisor at Jackson, Wyo. Washakie National Forest (852,653). Supervisor at Lander, Wyo. Wyoming National Forest (899,980). Supervis

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Time Allowed Visiting Motorists on Home License

Time Allowed Visiting Motorists on Home License

Florida, reciprocal allowance. Georgia, thirty days. Idaho, reciprocal allowance. Indiana, sixty days. Illinois, six months. Iowa, reciprocal allowance. Kansas, sixty days. Kentucky, reciprocal allowance. [ 314 ] Louisiana, reciprocal allowance. Maine, thirty days. Maryland, ninety days, except for District of Columbia. Massachusetts, reciprocal allowance. Michigan, ninety days. Minnesota, thirty days. Mississippi, sixty days. Missouri, sixty days. Montana, thirty to ninety days. Nebraska, thirt

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Trailer Fees

Trailer Fees

Idaho.—One ton and under, $15.00; 2,001–3,000 pounds, $20.00 Illinois.—No trailer law. Indiana.—Less than a ton, $3.00; one to two tons, $6.00. Iowa.—Under one ton, $10.00; one to two tons, $15.00—pneumatic tires. Kansas.—No trailer law. Kentucky.—No trailer law. [ 316 ] Louisiana.—No trailer law. Maine.—Per 100 pounds gross weight—pneumatic tires—15 cents. Maryland.—One ton—pneumatic tires—$10.00; each additional ton, $10.00. Massachusetts.—Pneumatic tires, $10.00 per ton of capacity. Michigan.

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State Regulations for Angling and Hunting

State Regulations for Angling and Hunting

Connecticut. —Angling: Non-resident, $2.25. Trout, March 31–July 1; bass, June 13–May 1; pickerel, April 13–Feb. 1. Hunting: Resident, $1.25; non-resident, $10.25. Ducks, geese and brant, Sept. 13–Jan. 16; quail, woodcock, partridge or ruffed grouse, Hungarian partridge and male pheasants, squirrels, Oct. 7–Nov. 24; hares and rabbits, Oct. 7–Dec. 1; raccoon, Oct. 14–Feb. 1; mink, [ 322 ] otter, muskrat, Oct. 31–March 15; skunk, Oct. 31–Feb. 1. License issued by Town Clerk. Delaware. —Angling: No

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Overview of abbreviations used....

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